Today let’s take a minute to welcome our newer readers and Media Center comrades by highlighting a few of the older guides and posts that they may have missed. There are a handful of guides from the earlier days of Hack7MC that can still be quite useful for new Media Center enthusiasts.

For starters, interested in launching any application from the Media Center interface? Using software from Mikinhosoft and this handy tool from Chris Dyess you can launch any program you’d like from Media Center and still have the ability to return when your finished.

Perhaps you’re more interested in checking the weather without having to wait for the local news (or waiting for The Weather Channel to get around to your general area). Though Media Center has left weather out of it’s offerings for quite some time there’s still hope.

Heatwave brings weather to your Media Center through a sleek user friendly interface that’s easy to customize. Adding locations is a synch and you can even give the plug-in it’s own start menu entry all from inside Media Center.

More interested in streaming media than what’s going on outside (after all that’s what windows are for right)? Check out this plug-in that brings Shoutcast radio into your Media Center experience. Browse through the thousands of free streaming stations provided by the Shoutcast network from your couch.

Finally, check out this recently updated hack from Missing Remote that enables the ability to Remotely connect to your Media Center machine without interrupting the current session. Known as concurrent user sessions this handy hack will let you get your Media Center maintenance done without interrupting the family’s TV time.

For all you new users who haven’t signed up for one of the free subscription methods, including the Hack7MC RSS Feed, it’s a great way to keep on top of the latest hacks and plug-ins to keep your Media Center experience at the top of it’s game!